Erick and Rich chat about the coronavirus pandemic's effect on hardware sales, surveying your clients about when they'll return to the office (if ever), and the recent spike in people who say they're locked down at home with a ghost.

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Erick and Rich have some thoughts to share about Acronis jumping into cybersecurity services, forging a strategy for your business before investing in your business, and a new text-based support service (yea!) from Spirit Airlines that costs $25 to use (boo!).
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The renamed security vendor stakes out a broader “cyberimmunity” mission with a new partner program and channel chief, and responds to concerns about its Russian roots with a “Global Transparency Initiative.”
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Drawing on artificial intelligence and a threat intelligence engine informed by input from 600 million inboxes, the system can now identify malicious messages and delete them across all the domains an MSP protects without manual assistance.
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The managed threat hunting, detection, and response service is designed to let users of the vendor’s Intercept X endpoint security solution combine that system’s behavior-based AI with expertise from skilled analysts to act on threats faster and more effectively.
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Woburn, MA – September 11, 2019 – According to the new Threats to MacOS Users report from Kaspersky, the number of phishing attacks disguised as the Apple brand, has reached 1.6 million in just the first half of 2019. Furthermore, phishing scams targeting MacOS users continue to grow, with the report showing in the same timeframe, almost 6 million attacks on these users detected.
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Using software from security vendor Actifile, Choice now helps managed service providers locate records covered by data privacy regulations both at rest and in the cloud, and then encrypt it all with a single click.
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Woburn, MA-August 28, 2019 - During the second quarter of 2019, Kaspersky reported a 21% increase in the amount phishing attacks compared to Q2 of 2018. According to the spam and phishing report, experts also detected multiple mailshots pretending to offer tax refunds worldwide.
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